頭尾

Chinese

		head; (noun suffix)	tail
trad. (頭尾)		頭	尾
simp. (头尾)		头	尾

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tóuwěi

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄡˊ ㄨㄟˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tau⁴ mei⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thèu-mî

(Meixian, Guangdong): têu² mi¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): tao² buei³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thâu-bé / thâu-bér / thâu-bóe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tóuwěi
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄡˊ ㄨㄟˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tóuwěi
  - Wade–Giles: tʻou²-wei³
  - Yale: tóu-wěi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tourwoei
  - Palladius: тоувэй (touvɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰoʊ̯³⁵ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tau⁴ mei⁵
  - Yale: tàuh méih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tau⁴ mei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: teo⁴ méi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐu̯²¹ mei̯¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thèu-mî
  - Hakka Romanization System: teu^ˇ mi^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: teu² mi¹
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu̯¹¹ mi²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: têu² mi¹
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰeu¹¹ mi⁴⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tao² buei³ [Phonetic: tao⁵ uei³]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: táu-bôi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau¹³⁻¹¹ ^(p-)uei⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tao² buei³ [Phonetic: tao⁵ wuei³]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau²⁴⁻²¹ ^(p-)βuei³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-bé
  - Tâi-lô: thâu-bé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tau'bea
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰau²⁴⁻²² be⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰau²⁴⁻¹¹ be⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-bér
  - Tâi-lô: thâu-bér
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰau²⁴⁻²² bə⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâu-bóe
  - Tâi-lô: thâu-bué
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tau'boea
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰau¹³⁻²² bue⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰau²³⁻³³ bue⁴¹/

Noun

頭尾

head and tail parts
beginning and end; details of a matter

Adverb

頭尾

(Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min) from beginning to end
頭尾搞咗三日 [Cantonese, trad.]
头尾搞咗三日 [Cantonese, simp.]
tau⁴ mei⁵ gaau² zo² saam¹ jat⁶ [Jyutping]
worked on it for three days from start to finish

Synonyms

前後／前后 (qiánhòu)

Derived terms

頭尾日 / 头尾日
頭頭尾尾 / 头头尾尾

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “头尾”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 528.